MS17-014: Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: March 14, 2017

Summary

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-014.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 installed on the computer.

For a complete list of affected versions of Microsoft Office software, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 4013241.

Improvements and fixes

This security update contains improvements and fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• When you browse to the action links of a question or answer (such as the Edit or Reply link) in a discussions list, no context of that message appear in the action links. Therefore, screen readers can't detect the context of the message that you focus on. The update adds a simple text string to all action links that are part of the message body.

• In an announcements list, the email attachment of an email item is lost if the attached .eml file title contains specific characters.

• After you enter and format text in a table of a content editor web part in a site in Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer scrolls the page unexpectedly.

• If your permission isn't enabled on the Manage Permissions page, you don't receive email notification as expected even if you are granted permissions.

• When you try to apply a filter to a list view, you receive the following error message if this view is grouped by a calculated column:

SqlError: 'ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified.

• After you migrate from classic-mode to claims-based authentication in Microsoft SharePoint 2013, you receive an exception when you try to access the SPFileVersion.CreatedBy property of a document.

• When the subject line of a SharePoint alert email is longer than 75 characters and contains a mix of single-byte and double-byte characters, a carriage return line feed (CLRF) can occur between the two bytes of a double-bite character, causing the string to get corrupted..

• Headings structure is incorrect in blogs basic view.

• When you start a crawl for a web application that's migrated from SharePoint Server 2010, the crawl fails, and the content isn't searchable. This issue occurs because the connector retrieves the TenantId property two times.

• When you open a document in Word Web App, you receive the following error message if there are special characters in the URL of the document:

Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document.

• When you try to restore a site that's backed up in a site collection, you receive the following error message if the site collection lock is set to No Access:

Access to the web site has been blocked. The site isn't accessible and isn't displayed on Central Admin.

• It's difficult for a screen reader to understand the structure between sections on a discussion board because there's only one heading. This update adds h2 and h3 labels to discussion boards for better screen reading.

• In SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises, you can't not be redirected to SharePoint Online to create sites.

Known issues in this security update

SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Foundation 2013

Users can't open documents in Office Web Apps or Office Online Server in any site whose URL contains a space character.

To resolve this issue, install April 11, 2017, update for SharePoint Foundation 2013 (KB3178732)

How to get and install the update

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